11-17-2013, 09:26 AM
(11-15-2013, 04:35 PM)Cynical Ninja Wrote: At least Zimmerman faced a direct physical confrontation this guy was standing behind a securely locked door!
Wafer is being held on $250k bond.
The fact that he shot through a locked door is gonna make it very hard for his defense to succeed in getting him off the hook here.
The fact that he first claimed that the gun went off by accident and then quickly changed his tune to the "I fired because I was in fear for my life" defense ain't gonna help him either, IMO.
McBride was wasted off her ass - no doubt about it. Her alcohol tox level was sky high, she hit a parked car and left the scene, she was only a mile from her home when she was killed, it's not clear what she was doing for more than 2 hours between the accident and the killing... All things that would have made it hard for a defense attorney to get her off the hook for DUI, IF she had lived. But, none of those things made her a life threat to Wafer or justifies her killing. Still not illegal in this country to knock or bang on someone's front door.
I don't know if LE took a tox screen of Wafer that night - doubting it - they didn't tox screen Zimmerman the night he killed Trayvon Martin. But, I gotta wonder what caused Wafer to think shooting a gun through his front door was a better idea than calling 911 and standing at alert inside the house til they arrived.
Maybe he was altered. Or, maybe he's just bought into the "shoot first, ask questions later" bullshit, even when you don't know if there's a threat, don't know who you're shooting, don't know why you're shooting, and you have the option to call for help. I'd call people with that mentality unstable and unqualified to own a gun, or in this case, guilty of manslaughter and deserving of years behind bars - JMO.